The Beginnings of Agriculture in America
Author | : Lyman Carrier |
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Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Lyman Carrier |
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Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557532817 |
R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. Complete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.
Author | : Eric Holt-Giménez |
Publisher | : Food First Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780935028270 |
Campesino a Campesino tells the inspiring story of a true grassroots movement: poor peasant farmers teaching one another how to protect their environment while still earning a living. The first book in English about the farmer-led sustainable agriculture movement in Latin America, Campesino a Campesino includes lots of first-person stories and commentary from the farmer-teachers, mixing personal accounts with detailed analysis of the political, socioeconomic, and ecological factors that galvanized the movement. Campesino farmer leading a farmer to farmer training session in Mexico by Eric Holt-GimenezMany years ago, author Eric Holt-Gim�nez was a volunteer trying to teach sustainable agriculture techniques in the dusty highlands of central Mexico, with little success. Near the end of his tenure, he invited a group of visiting Guatemalan farmers to teach a course in his village. What he saw was like nothing he had known. The Guatemalans used parables, stories, and humor to present agricultural improvement to their Mexican compadres as a logical outcome of clear thinking and compassion; love of farming, of family, of nature, and of community. Rather than try to convince the Mexicans of their innovations, they insisted they experiment new things on a small scale first to see how well they worked. And they saw themselves as students, respecting the Mexicans' deep, lifelong knowledge of their own particular land and climate. All they asked in return was that the Mexicans turn around and share their new knowledge with others--which they did. CAC campo3_photo by Food FirstThis exchange was typical of a grassroots movement called Campesino a Campesino, or Farmer to Farmer, which has grown up in southern Mexico and war-torn Central America over the last three decades. In the book Campesino a Campesino, Holt-Gim�nez writes the first history of the movement, describing the social, political, economic, and environmental circumstances that shape it. The voices and stories of dozens of farmers in the movement are captured, bringing to vivid life this hopeful story of peasant farmers helping one another to farm sustainably, protecting their land, their environment, and their families' future.
Author | : Mark V. Wetherington |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2021-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442269286 |
American Agriculture tells the story of farming in American from contact between Native Americans and Europeans to the present. Agricultural historian Mark V. Wetherington provide a narrative overview of significant historical trends explored through specific crop regions and their emergence over time. He traces the decline of the family farm that at one time formed the backbone of America’s agrarian culture and the emergence of large industrial farms that overproduce subsidized commodity crops. American Agriculture provides a narrative overview of significant historical trends explored through specific crop regions and their emergence over time. It is interdisciplinary in approach and places the major themes and topics within the broader context of the nation's history. This book will be essential reading to anyone interesting in the past, present, or future of American farming.
Author | : Bruce L. Gardner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-03-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674007482 |
American agriculture in the twentieth century has given the world one of its great success stories, a paradigm of productivity and plenty. Yet the story has its dark side, from the plight of the Okies in the 1930s to the farm crisis of the 1980s to today's concerns about low crop prices and the impact of biotechnology. Looking at U.S. farming over the past century, Bruce Gardner searches out explanations for both the remarkable progress and the persistent social problems that have marked the history of American agriculture. Gardner documents both the economic difficulties that have confronted farmers and the technological and economic transformations that have lifted them from relative poverty to economic parity with the nonfarm population. He provides a detailed analysis of the causes of these trends, with emphasis on the role of government action. He reviews how commodity support programs, driven by interest-group politics, have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to little purpose. Nonetheless, Gardner concludes that by reconciling competing economic interests while fostering productivity growth and economic integration of the farm and nonfarm economies, the overall twentieth-century role of government in American agriculture is fairly viewed as a triumph of democracy.
Author | : Greg Roza |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2005-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404204102 |
Describes how America changed its agricultural practices as a result of the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution.
Author | : Rural America, Inc |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Willard W. Cochrane |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9781452900537 |